Interference suppressing OFDM system for wireless communications

Abstract

An IS-OFDM system for point-to-point wireless communications that suppresses narrow-band interference comprises an IS-OFDM transmitter and an IS-OFDM receiver, wherein a transmitted signal comprises a plurality of subcarriers, and further wherein each subcarrier contains more than one and potentially all symbols transmitted in a given frame. The IS-OFDM transmitted signal is at a data rate that is equal to the data rate of the input data stream via the use of P/S converters.

What is claimed is: 
     
       1. An interference suppression orthogonal frequency division multiplexed system, comprising:
 an interference suppression orthogonal frequency division multiplexed transmitter, wherein the interference suppression orthogonal frequency division multiplexed transmitter comprises:
 a serial-to-parallel converter, the serial-to-parallel converter for accepting an input data stream and for operating on the input data stream to produce a plurality of parallel data streams; 
 a plurality of spreaders, each spreader of the plurality of spreaders coupled to the serial-to-parallel converter, each spreader of the plurality of spreaders operates by applying an orthogonal binary code sequence to one of the plurality of parallel data streams spreading the one of the plurality of parallel data streams resulting in a set of parallel spread data streams, wherein each one of the set of parallel spread data streams comprises a plurality of sub-carriers, wherein each one of the plurality of sub-carriers contains all data bits of the input data stream separated from each other by the orthogonal binary code sequence where a power of each one of the data bits is spread to all of the plurality of sub-carriers; and 
 a plurality of serial-to-parallel buffer and encoder devices, each of the plurality of serial-to-parallel buffer and encoder devices coupled to one of the plurality of spreaders, each of the plurality of serial-to-parallel buffer and encoder devices is for accepting one of the set of parallel spread data streams and for operating on the one of the set of parallel spread data streams to produce a plurality of parallel sub-streams. 
 
 
     
     
       2. The interference suppression orthogonal frequency division multiplexed system of  claim 1 , further comprising:
 an interference suppression orthogonal frequency division multiplexed receiver, wherein a transmitted signal comprises the plurality of subcarriers, and further wherein each subcarrier of the plurality of subcarrier contains more than one symbol transmitted in a given frame. 
 
     
     
       3. The interference suppression orthogonal frequency division multiplexed system of  claim 1 , wherein an encoder portion of each of the serial-to-parallel buffer and encoder devices is further for creating complex data points, which are used to produce the plurality of parallel sub-streams. 
     
     
       4. The interference suppression orthogonal frequency division multiplexed system of  claim 1 , wherein each one of the plurality of parallel sub-streams is associated with a transfer function. 
     
     
       5. The interference suppression orthogonal frequency division multiplexed system of  claim 4 , wherein the transfer function of each one of the plurality of parallel sub-streams is equalized to a constant value. 
     
     
       6. An interference suppression orthogonal frequency division multiplexed transmitter, comprising:
 a serial-to-parallel converter, the serial-to-parallel converter for accepting a data stream and for operating on the data stream to produce a plurality of parallel data streams; 
 a plurality of spreaders, each spreader of the plurality of spreaders coupled to the serial-to-parallel converter, each spreader of the plurality of spreaders operates by applying an orthogonal binary code sequence to one of the plurality of parallel data streams spreading the one of the plurality of parallel data streams resulting in a set of parallel spread data streams, wherein each one of the set of parallel spread data streams comprises a plurality of sub-carriers, wherein each one of the plurality of sub-carriers contains all data bits of the input data stream separated from each other by the orthogonal binary code sequence where a power of each one of the data bits is spread to all of the plurality of sub-carriers; and 
 a plurality of serial-to-parallel buffer and encoder devices, each of the plurality of serial-to-parallel buffer and encoder devices coupled to one of the plurality of spreaders, each of the serial-to-parallel buffer and encoder devices is for accepting one of the set of parallel spread data streams and for operating on the one of the set of parallel spread data streams to produce a plurality of parallel sub-streams. 
 
     
     
       7. The interference suppression orthogonal frequency division multiplexed transmitter according to  claim 6 , wherein an encoder portion of each of the serial-to-parallel buffer and encoder devices is further for creating complex data points, which are used to produce the plurality of parallel sub-streams. 
     
     
       8. The interference suppression orthogonal frequency division multiplexed transmitter of  claim 6 , wherein each one of the plurality of parallel sub-streams is associated with a transfer function. 
     
     
       9. The interference suppression orthogonal frequency division multiplexed transmitter of  claim 8 , wherein the transfer function of each one of the plurality of parallel sub-streams is equalized to a constant value. 
     
     
       10. An interference suppression orthogonal frequency division multiplexed transmitter, comprising:
 means for serial-to-parallel converting an input data stream to produce a plurality of parallel data streams; 
 means for spreading each of the plurality of parallel data streams by applying an orthogonal binary code sequence resulting in a set of parallel spread data streams, wherein each one of the set of parallel spread data streams comprises a plurality of sub-carriers, wherein each one of the plurality of sub-carriers contains all data of the input data stream separated from each other by the orthogonal binary code sequence such that a power of each one of the data bits is spread to all of the plurality of sub-carriers; and 
 means for serial-to-parallel buffering and encoding each of the set of parallel data streams to produce a plurality of parallel sub-streams. 
 
     
     
       11. The interference suppression orthogonal frequency division multiplexed transmitter of  claim 10 , wherein the means for serial-to-parallel buffering and encoding is further for creating complex data points, which are used to produce the plurality of parallel sub-streams. 
     
     
       12. The interference suppression orthogonal frequency division multiplexed transmitter of  claim 10 , wherein each one of the plurality of parallel sub-streams is associated with a transfer function. 
     
     
       13. The interference suppression orthogonal frequency division multiplexed transmitter of  claim 12 , wherein the transfer function of each one of the plurality of parallel sub-streams is equalized to a constant value.